CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Workshop on High-Consequence Control Verification
http://www.sandia.gov/hccv/ July 18, 2016 - Toronto, Ontario, Canada In conjunction with the 28th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (venue and registration information will be available at http://i-cav.org/2016/). Abstract submissions describing practical applications of high-consequence control verification are especially encouraged. DATES Abstract submission (1 page maximum): May 18, 2016 Notification: May 25, 2016 Workshop: July 18, 2016 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM Confirmed invited speaker: Sanjit Seshia (University of California, Berkeley) Additional contributors: Karla Morris (Sandia/California) and Colin Snook (University of Southampton) Philip Johnson-Freyd (University of Oregon) Aadithya Karthik (Sandia/New Mexico) Lee Pike (Galois, Inc.) Toby Wilkinson and Michael Butler (University of Southampton) SCOPE The Workshop on High-Consequence Control Verification (HCCV) focuses on formal methods concepts and techniques to ensure the highest levels of reliability, safety, and security for digitally controlled devices, including the effects of possibly extreme physical environments. The workshop targets applications where the severe consequences of failure justify extraordinary investments not appropriate for less critical devices -- including special methodologies at the design stage to enable verifying stringent reliability, safety, and security requirements in the resulting devices under both nominal and out-of-nominal (fault) conditions. Such needs exist in domains including defense, medical devices, and scientific instrumentation. The willingness to make greater investments for small but high-consequence devices can provide an opportunity to leverage emerging, more powerful formal methods techniques that may currently be considered too costly for "mainstream" industrial applications. Novel ideas for design and analysis techniques that promote in-depth verifiability are of strong interest for these high-consequence digital controllers. The HCCV workshop offers a new forum for engagement among formal methods researchers, tool developers, and practitioners. Topics of interest include: * Theory and techniques for formally verified high-consequence digital design (via model checking and/or theorem proving), such as: - Abstraction/refinement - Correct-by-construction synthesis - Exhaustive or probabilistic analysis of fault consequences - Incorporation of analog physics * Applications to safety-critical digitally controlled devices in domains such as: - Defense - Medical - Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) Important notes: * Submissions should target requirements for high-consequence devices, *not* general-purpose software verification or cybersecurity. * Submissions should target mathematical analyzability of designs, *not merely* testing- and simulation-based verification or the use of standard electronic design automation (EDA) tools. SUBMISSION Abstracts of up to 1 page in PDF format should be submitted at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hccv2016 on or before May 18, 2016. Each accepted abstract will be allotted a speaking slot. The collection of accepted abstracts will be made available for download from the workshop website. ORGANIZERS Jackson R. Mayo (co-chair) Sandia National Laboratories Livermore, California, United States jm...@sandia.gov Michael J. Butler (co-chair) University of Southampton, United Kingdom m...@ecs.soton.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications Manager Applications Manager provides deep performance insights into multiple tiers of your business applications. It resolves application problems quickly and reduces your MTTR. Get your free trial! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/302982198;130105516;z _______________________________________________ hol-info mailing list hol-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hol-info
